Submitted by Mahendra

Submitted by Fareed (Sri Lanka), Mar 6, 2010 at 14:00

I think Mr. Mahendran did not read the Qur'an but he simply quoting Bin Laden. Those verses were revealed during the time of war between Muslims and the Pagans, they were not just non-Muslims; they persecuted, tortured and killed Muslims and also they were planing to completely wipe out the entire Muslim population, so the Muslims had no choice but to fight and defeat them or perish.

Well, Bin Laden uses this verses to fight the occupiers of Afganistan, Iraq, palestine and other parts of the Muslim world because America and NATO by invading the Muslim countries given the oppotunity for Bin laden to call foir Jihard agaist the occupiers, in fact 1.6 billion Muslims support war agaist America because America has been involved in supporting Israel to occupy and kill Muslims even today. Muslims in those countires deserve the right to fight oppresson and fight tany invader and that doesn't mean 1.6 billion Muslims are going to take up weapons to fight the occupiers but they have to support them because the Western countries are killing Muslims in the name of freedomn and Democracy but the truth is they just there with an excuse to control the wealth of the Muslim countries with the support of the puppets and corrupt regimes that they put them in place.
Blaming the wrong doing of Bush and Blair should not just be passed on Islam. The truth is Muslims have no qurrel with non-Muslims as long as they respect their right to practice Islam and they will respect them

So Mahendran is wrong here:

Fight in God's cause those who wage war against you, but do not commit aggression, for truly God doesn't love aggressors.

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